Islamists Oppose Egypt Candidates

By

Matt Bradley and

Amina Ismail

Updated April 13, 2012 4:08 pm ET

CAIRO—Thousands of mostly Islamist protesters flooded into Egypt's capital Friday in a show of force aimed at pushing Egypt's military leaders to block presidential candidates who held leading positions in the country's ousted regime.

The march came one day after the Islamist-dominated Parliament passed a so-called isolation bill that, if passed by the ruling military council and upheld by Egypt's courts, would prevent Omar Suleiman, a former intelligence chief and briefly vice president, and Ahmed Shafiq, a former prime minister,...